Educational Quotes - Page 11

• When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Real, Technology

  42 Copy quote

• Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Dream, Country

  53 Copy quote

• I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Knowledge, Thinking, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  101 Copy quote

• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Relationship, Peace

  224 Copy quote

• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

  Thomas Huxley

  Graduation, Witty, Inspiration

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Education, School, Prejudice

  13 Copy quote

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Light

  13 Copy quote

• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  111 Copy quote

• Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Dog, School

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

  28 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  949 Copy quote

• Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  36 Copy quote

• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  37 Copy quote

• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

  23 Copy quote

• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

  Krister Stendahl

  Education, Parenting, Thinking

  55 Copy quote

• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Dark, Mirrors

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

  Sarah Newton

  Parent, Tests, Disorder

  45 Copy quote

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  Wendell Johnson

  Funny, Witty, Communication

  59 Copy quote

• So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

  Brian Eno

  Believe, Character, School

  8 Copy quote